The shift in the political views of young people happening right now is one of the most dramatic in history. Charlie dissects a Yale poll that shows college-age young adults now lean Republican by almost 12 points(!!). Maria Bartiromo, anchor of FOX Business Network’s Mornings with Maria dissects the "one big beautiful bill" and whether America is likely to have a recession this year. Plus, Charlie asks: Why are Democrats so eager to get on a plane to help foreign gang members? Become a member at members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Turning Point USA is moving the dial.
A shocking and breathtaking new Yale Youth Poll.
Wait till you see this.
A new Yale Youth Poll tells the entire story of what we are doing at Turning Point USA.
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Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
I want to thank Charlie.
He's an incredible guy.
His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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They told us nearly 13 years ago it was impossible.
They told us nearly 13 years ago it was not possible.
It can't happen.
I remember when I first started Turning Point USA and this journey began.
I was told, the college Republicans are doing this thing.
What do you need this Turning Point thing for?
I was told that there was already well-built, multi-decade campus infrastructure on these college campuses.
That there was no need to organize or...
Try to add a little bit of a spark to the youth dynamic of this country.
I was told that that's all taken care of.
Charlie, mind your own business.
Go get an internship.
Go to college.
Very few people saw the potential of what Turning Point USA would become and what, amazingly, we would help achieve.
For nearly 13 years, we've been in the trenches organizing college campus chapters, organizing high school chapters, and it's very difficult for me to demonstrate The infrastructure that is necessary to make that happen.
The well over 1,000 full-time people that we have on our staff.
I hope you guys internalize that.
1,000 full-time people that we have to manage here at Turning Point USA.
It's a remarkable machine.
We've worked hard as the tip of the spear, both Turning Point Action and Turning Point USA, to try to change a culture.
And we know the youth vote results back in November.
We know how young people rose up in record numbers, especially young men.
And the youth vote moved double digits.
But what is surprising and shocking prognosticators and experts.
Remember, we must trust the experts.
What is shocking them is that this generation is not slowing down.
This generation is becoming more conservative.
This generation.
Is embracing the ideas of freedom and liberty and American exceptionalism at a rapid pace, the likes of which that is stunning, observers.
What you are seeing on screen is just in the last week of well over, if you tabulate it all, 12,000 to 15,000 students that have shown up in rain, in cold, in wind, in weather, to go hear me debate college kids across the country.
Now you might say, Charlie, what difference does that make?
Well, the difference is demonstrated in the latest Yale Youth Poll.
Yale begrudgingly published this Youth Poll.
And I might add, before I continue, we get billions of online views.
No organization.
No operation.
No team.
is as viral as the Charlie Kirk Show and Turning Point USA.
It does not exist.
It does not exist on the left.
It does not exist on the right.
If you combine Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk Show, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, it is the most viral operation that is around cultural and political matters and even theological and spiritual matters.
So the Yale Youth Poll is very well respected.
It's Yale, after all.
We must trust the experts.
And to everyone's surprise and shock, but not to those of us that are actually in the grassroots, the Yale Youth Poll shows the following.
The Yale Youth Poll reports that voters 18 to 21, current college kids, lean Republican.
That's right.
Current college kids, well, it's actually not just lean.
It's even more dramatic than that.
They find that young people on college campuses are Republican by 11.7 points.
This is an incredibly bullish empirical data point.
This is your future.
This is what is coming next.
It is easy to believe that, oh, the next generation is nothing but a bunch of leftists, a bunch of communists, a bunch of Marxists.
No, no, no.
The work that we have been doing in the trenches.
The harvest that we have been waiting for is here.
And the Yale Youth Poll is further proving that this was not just a one-time Trump phenomenon in November.
It is a bottom-up, youth-led, campus-focused, right-wing revolution.
And what is amazing is that the older 20-somethings are actually a little more Democrat.
How does that make sense?
So now the kids that are on college campuses...
Are more conservative, the kids outside of college campuses aren't as conservative.
And I've got to be honest, I think there's a lot of answers to it.
I think it's being immersed in wokeism, political correctness, the fragility of the cultural campus infrastructure, and also what Turning Point has done is a campus revolution, the likes of which no one could have ever imagined.
And understand the 18, 19, and 20, and 20-year-olds on these college campuses, they are the COVID generation.
This should be the front page of the New York Times.
It should be the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
But they are begrudgingly covering this like, oh, it must be an outlier.
What you are witnessing, everybody, is the most dramatic generational political swing in history is unfolding before our eyes.
This is not a Turning Point USA poll.
This is not just Charlie Kirk's opinion.
This is Yale.
Yale, that has all the incentives in the world to basically say that young people are liberal.
18 to 21-year-olds are 11.7 points more in favor of Trump, more in favor of the Republican Party, more in favor of the conservative movement.
How did that happen?
They are rejecting their professors, they're rejecting the toxicity of the anti-white hatred, they're rejecting DEI, and they're embracing our viewpoint.
And we are not just reaching them on the grassroots of the campuses, from Boise State, we're going to Washington State tomorrow, from...
University of Southern California, all across the country.
We're also reaching them in their smartphones.
Dominant on the digital smartphones.
But seriously, 22 to 29-year-olds who consume our content are just the same.
They're only leaning Democrats by 6.4 points.
That's a monumental shift.
Everybody, this is such, this is an optimism hurricane.
It's an 18-point swing almost overnight.
How big is the swing from 30-year-olds to today's 18-year-olds?
It's dramatic.
What we are witnessing is one of the most hopeful developments that we've been praying for and working for.
One that shows you the country that we are about to inherit.
And people are starting to notice.
There is some people noticing.
They're starting to connect the dots.
It's not just that, oh, Charlie Kirk shows up to a college campus and he's rallying the MAGA faithful.
No, it is penetrating deep into the fibers of these campuses.
It is shaking these islands of totalitarianism to the core.
And people are starting to notice.
We love noticers.
Play Cut 208.
It's like, have they met college students?
Do they realize that when you're 18, what you think at 18 might change between 18 and 21?
Actually, according to the latest polling, 18 to 21-year-olds are some of the most conservative people in the country.
I think that is exactly it.
So how is it that Harvard finds every non-conservative 18-year-old in the country?
And to that woman's point, I don't know her name, as a counterpoint to her.
As you get older, you actually tend to get even more conservative.
That's Abby Phillips.
So if this is the baseline starting point, this is before they're married, before they have a mortgage, this is before they have kids, and they're starting as a baseline data point as the most conservative generation in recorded data in the last 40 years.
That's before they have the three M's of a mortgage, marriage, mating.
So they're conservative before the three.
I am by no means taking credit for this with Turning Point USA or Turning Point Action.
I will say we play a substantial role.
And President Trump deserves enormous credit for his grit and his fortitude and his resilience and his focus and his stamina.
But I will say that what we do on this program, when you guys listen to us, when you download our podcast, when you become a member, when you follow us, you are part of what I believe is the greatest catalyzing We are a catalyst.
And boy, this is hopeful, everybody.
The next generation, according to Yale, is 11 points more Republican than Democrat.
The kids are all right.
And the future is increasingly bright.
I just got to give glory to God for his grace and his mercy.
And we are just getting started.
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What does it take to get a Democrat on a plane?
Do you know that there's still American citizens being held hostage by Hamas?
That's a lesser reported element, that there are American citizens that are still being held hostage by Hamas.
It's a real thing, that American passport holders, American citizens.
And I do think that is a lesser appreciated element of the entire Hamas situation, is that when Americans are held hostage, Certainly is noteworthy.
So this is a Democrat senator from Maryland.
Van Hollen is his name.
What gets him worked up?
Well, Van Hollen, because he's held captive by the lunatic wing of the Democrat Party, in order for him to get on a plane, he wants to make sure that an MS-13 member can come back to the interior of the United States.
Van Hollen is boarding a plane to San Salvador.
He's going to El Salvador to talk to the government of El Salvador, advocating, encouraging, and requesting the return of an MS-13 member back to the United States.
He wants him back.
This guy is willing to go fight.
So that the worst of the worst can actually come back to the United States.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
This is 213.
This is your Democrat Party.
They will fight.
They will fly hours on a plane to a foreign nation.
Not to go try to get hostages returned from Hamas.
No. Instead, they will fight to try to return a non-American in illegal.
This is not a U.S. citizen.
This is not a permanent green card holder.
This is an illegal.
Who, in previous court filings, has said that he's afraid to go back to El Salvador because another gang was going to kill him.
Huh. That's something a gang member would say.
But hey, Democrats are willing to get in the arena.
They're willing to fight, not for you, but for foreign El Salvadorian MS-13 gang members.
That's what gets them fired up.
Play cut 213.
I'm here at the airport.
I'm about to board my flight for San Salvador.
The goal of this mission is to let the Trump administration, to let the government of El Salvador know that we are going to keep fighting to bring Albrego Garcia home until he returns to his family.
I hope to meet with representatives of the government.
I hope to have the chance to actually see Kilmar and see what his condition is.
We are going to keep fighting because this is a miscarriage of justice.
The Supreme Court has ruled 9-0, 9-0, that he was illegally taken out of the country and put in a prison in El Salvador.
And this is about due process.
This is about rule of law.
What bullies do is they begin by picking on the most vulnerable.
But if we get rid of the rule of law, due process, the United States, it's a short road.
Okay, time out.
Why is it that the Democrat Party seems to be filled with these 65-year-old men that walk around in cargo shorts and New Balance sneakers and that are slightly effeminate in their approach?
That's like the new caricature.
It's like the Tim Waltz, Van Hollen beta energy.
No, let's just be clear.
The illegal act was not by the U.S. government.
The illegal act was when he came into our country.
Van Hollen, this guy who thinks that jogging once a year is a fitness plan, that's the type of guy that he is, he never tweeted once about Rachel Morin.
Not once.
A Maryland mother and an actual constituent of Chris Van Hollen.
Who was killed by another violent illegal.
Remember the first commandment of the left.
We should do an entire show of the Ten Commandments of the left.
The first commandment is very important.
Thou shalt have open borders.
They would like this Maryland dad a lot less if he were a U.S. citizen.
If he weren't a gang member.
If he wasn't a person who obviously should be here.
Did you know the wife of the deported MS-13 gangbanger dad, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, petitioned for a domestic violence protective order against him in 2021?
Looks like the Maryland father also liked to beat up his Maryland wife.
This is the person that Van Hollen is getting on a plane to go fight for.
This is the type of individual that he feels is worthy of his advocacy, not American citizens.
Not U.S. passport holders, not members of our nation, but foreigners who broke in, committed crimes, part of MS-13, and he could not be even bothered to tweet or mention the name of Rachel Morin.
That is the Democrat Party.
Foreign gangbangers first and America last.
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Maria Bartiromo is with us, legendary in the financial space and broadcasting, an all-around amazing person.
Maria, thank you so much for joining the program.
Charlie, thank you so much for having me.
So, Maria, there's a lot of confusion, some could say, around the tariff issue.
You understand financial markets.
You talk to more CEOs than anybody and lawmakers.
What is the latest with the tariff situation as of today, Wednesday, April 16th, as we are talking, Maria?
Well, you know, I mean, it's interesting.
It's funny that, you know, you're saying, what is the situation today?
Because, of course, we know that it appears and it feels like it's constantly changing.
But the truth is, you know, President Trump has had plans in place from day one.
And he's trying right now to categorize things in different buckets, frankly.
I mean, to make it as simple as possible, he started this, you know, this exercise out.
By focusing on the fentanyl coming into the country, killing 100,000 Americans a year.
To the countries that, you know, he was looking to help.
And he put a 20% tariff on them for failing to really stop the problem.
And, you know, that was initially the first reason.
And then, you know, it's also a revenue generator.
He's also raising money into U.S. coffers.
So there's that.
He's talking about $2 billion a day.
Of course, that's terrific, knowing our debt and deficits.
Then he's talking about bringing manufacturing to America, and that's another reason that he's looking at tariffs.
So today, we've got tariffs on fentanyl, which is under the international emergency economic powers that the president is using, which of course allows the president to regulate foreign and business activity internationally.
And place those tariffs on partners or wherever.
And then he's got the tariffs having to do with aluminum and steel.
And he's talking about tariffs there being a national security issue.
So you know what, Charlie?
I think this whole thing is not just an economic issue, but it is a national security issue.
And that's what I wish corporate America would understand.
I wish most people would understand.
These people that are trading stocks and selling their portfolio and putting pressure on the markets, it's really not a good idea.
When I say not a good idea, it's not a good idea for them.
The stock market is the best place long-term for wealth creation.
If you really want to make money over the long-term, decide where you want to invest.
We can get to that later.
That's another conversation.
Stay there.
Trade in and out of it, okay?
So you stay there long-term.
If you didn't sell anything, you're fine.
Okay, so you saw lots of volatility on Wall Street in the last couple of weeks.
But again, this is a national security issue.
And I really don't care how much, you know, it cuts into people's profits right now.
It's not the priority.
The priority is that communist China is undermining America at every turn.
Whether it be, you know, okay, you could start with COVID.
Why don't we start there?
Okay, COVID, we all know where it came from.
And we knew that actually very early on.
Secondly, there was a COVID cover-up.
They cornered the market on things, you know, like masks and gloves and this and that.
And I remember reporting that at the time because I had my hospital sources call me and say, Maria, ships were on their way to America with all this stuff that we need.
They were told, turn around, go back to China.
So they totally cornered the market on PPE and the products that we needed.
And then they basically...
Stopped, you know, stopped flights going out.
I'm sorry, stopped flights coming in, but allowed people to go out of China, out of Wuhan, right to Italy, where they had their Belt and Road Initiative.
All those people were working in Italy, and then it spread globally.
So there's a COVID cover-up.
There's also obviously massive, massive surveillance.
They're surveilling us at every turn.
Not to mention the spy balloon that travels the country, thanks Joe Biden, for the whole week of having the surveillance balloon send information back to the Chinese Communist Party in real time.
But you also have spies galore coming in all the time.
They have exploited the student visa process.
They have exploited and capitalized on anything they can.
And it's because the Communist Party of China wants to overtake the United States as the number one superpower.
President Trump is aware of this.
So he needs to protect the country.
And one of the most important ways and direct ways to do that is to ensure that America is independent of its own production.
There is no way in hell anybody would believe that we are completely reliant on Communist China for our prescription drugs.
It's outrageous.
We can't have it any longer.
We need to change that immediately.
Advanced semiconductor chips, same thing.
We are reliant on Taiwan.
We all know that China wants to reunite with Taiwan.
So in three seconds, China will be able to shut the lights off and on in the world if they go in and get all of those 90% of advanced semiconductor chips.
These are serious issues.
So President Trump is making it so expensive and so hard for companies not to want to produce in America, not to want to manufacture in America, They're all going to immediately start talking like patriots, and that's what should happen.
I want to play a piece of tape here.
Thank you for that, Maria.
Cut 118.
It's the NVIDIA clip from Stuart Varney.
Let's play Cut 118.
Look at NVIDIA on the left-hand side of the screen.
They've announced they will manufacture AI supercomputers in the United States.
They'll be building more than a million square feet of manufacturing space in Texas and in Arizona.
So we're seeing more and more investment here domestically, Maria.
When you're talking to the CEOs, both on your great program or privately, how are they internalizing all of this?
Some say they're panicking, but are they understanding that they have probably indulged the Chinese beast far too much?
Is there a private admission by the corporate class that they have made a mistake, they've made an error?
And even for their own best interest as a company, they should start to decouple their marriage with the Chinese Communist Party.
Companies are going to do whatever is lawful.
And they may very well push it to the edge because it's quote-unquote lawful.
Now what happened was, you know, when Clinton and, well, when Nixon first went to China and then Clinton, you know, supported China into the World Trade Organization, it was a pivotal moment for America.
And what happened then was the Americans felt, well, maybe, you know, we open up the world to trade with China.
You know, maybe they'll recognize how great democracy and capitalism is, and they'll sort of come to the middle.
That's not what happened.
What happened when they went more nationalistic, and you've got Xi Jinping right now modeling himself after Mao Zedong.
So they went completely the other way.
So yes, people recognize that it went the other way.
It wasn't just corporations making the mistake.
It was, you know, the world at large.
And so now they've gone too far.
Companies, I think, are talking about it, and they do know privately.
One CEO of a financial services company said to me, well, I told my people, make sure you're always ready to leave the keys and walk out the door.
Don't leave too much stuff.
Don't leave too much behind.
Make sure you're always ready to, I'm out of here, and get out when you need to.
China has been very smart and very aggressive with its Belt and Road strategy, taking it all over the world and aggressively utilizing shipping lanes across the world to, you know, producing products for the world at very cheap prices and taking over,
you know, complete huge infrastructure projects with various countries across the world, knowing that they'll never be able to pay the debt.
And then ultimately the Chinese saying, well, then we're going to just acquire this, acquire this port, take over that.
And so the good news is that President Trump understands all of this.
And the fact that he came in swinging with, you know, the Panama Canal, the Greenland idea, just shows you how in tune and brilliant he is about this issue.
You know, on the one hand, he's saying, oh, Xi Jinping's my friend, blah, blah, blah.
On the other hand, he's putting 145% tariffs on the nation.
So, look, it's not going to be easy.
President said we're going to see disruption, and I agree with that, because these things should have happened a long time ago.
We should not, like I said, we should not be reliant on these supply chains.
What companies are also saying, however, in addition...
They get privately that, yes, we need to decouple.
We need to bring more manufacturing outside of China and depend less on China.
They're also very unnerved by a lack of clarity.
And that's really the issue.
And when I spoke with President Trump a month ago, I asked him this, and I pushed him on it.
That's not clarity.
Where's the clarity?
We need clarity because these companies are public companies.
Their CEOs need to communicate to shareholders.
They need to communicate to their business partners about how much money they're going to put into IT and how much money they're going to do R&D and make capital projections.
And they can't because they don't know how much it's going to cost them on tariffs.
So the lack of clarity is what is undermining the confidence in this.
But I think slowly but surely people are recognizing that this is not just an economic issue.
This is a national security issue and everybody needs to get on board.
I completely and totally agree.
In closing here, Maria, Would you say that we are heading towards a recession?
How would you look at the current economic environment?
How does the one big beautiful bill play into that?
The consensus amongst CEOs, 60 plus percent say that they think a recession is coming.
What do you think, Maria?
Nah, I don't think so.
Look, I see a lot of good things in the economy.
I do think that the big beautiful bill takes on much more importance than ever before.
Congress needs to get to work.
The GOP needs to get in line and ensure that they get those tax cuts extended because the markets and the economy need some good news.
I don't think a recession is a definite outcome at all.
I see growth.
I don't want to hear this talk about raising taxes on the rich.
That's exactly who you should not raise taxes on because that encapsulates business, and businesses are the job creators.
So I think they need to stick to their principles.
Extend the tax cuts.
Ensure that people have confidence in that.
Confidence in Trump's deregulatory plans.
That's also very important.
Confidence in the energy plan.
And I think they'll get over tariffs soon enough.
And yeah, okay, maybe it takes a hit to earnings next couple of quarters, but they'll get over it.
Everyone, Maria is the greatest.
Every Sunday morning, I'm watching Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News.
Maria, thank you so much for your time.
God bless.
Talk to you soon.
Thank you, Carl.
You too.
Bye-bye.
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There's so much news happening right here.
I want to focus on a story that has not received nearly enough attention, which is the fact that President Trump is dialoguing with Iran.
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, period.
Hard stop.
That's a non-negotiable.
America has a nuclear weapon.
France has a nuclear weapon.
Russia has a nuclear weapon.
China has a nuclear weapon.
India has a nuclear weapon.
Pakistan has a nuclear weapon.
Israel has a nuclear weapon.
I'm sure I'm forgetting it.
South Africa used to have nuclear weapons, and they got rid of them.
Widespread—oh, North Korea obviously has a nuclear weapon.
Widespread nuclear proliferation would be very bad for the world.
It would be not good.
To have errant, crazy actors, like the Ayatollah of Iran, to have a nuclear weapon, no good.
Iran is one of the fulcrums of Mohammedism.
It's not the only one.
It's where the Shias come to live.
About 15% of all Muslims are Shia.
Now I'm going to play this piece of tape from Pete Hegseth, and I'm going to also tell you another truth.
Because while Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, going to war with Iran would be catastrophic.
Going to war with Iran would be a dreadful mistake.
And that includes American military strikes on the interior of Iran.
Two things can simultaneously be true.
We need to exert maximum leverage while also saying we are not going to go to war with Iran.
Doesn't matter if Tom Cotton wants it.
Doesn't matter if Lindsey Graham wants it.
It doesn't matter if all the U.S. Senators and the deep state cabal wants it.
We will clearly say we are against a war with Iran.
Let's play first Cut 99. Well, I can tell you that President Trump is dead serious on this issue.
He's dead serious that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
He's said that for 20 years.
He's been consistent.
That is clear.
He's dead serious that he wants it done at the negotiating table.
He wants it done peacefully, and that's why he's going straight to these talks.
He set that deadline.
These were productive talks yesterday.
I don't want to get ahead of our skis.
Steve Widkoff does a fantastic job, but it was a good step, and they're going to go at it again on Saturday.
But he's also dead serious that if we can't figure this out at the negotiating table, then there are other options to include my department to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear bomb.
We hope we never get there.
I think they have to say that.
For the record, I think Pete Hegseth has to say that, or else they're not going to take us seriously.
I would strongly oppose any form of military strikes on Iranian nuclear equipment, period.
That would be an act of war.
I don't care if it's limited.
That is an act of war.
Ever since the Cold War ended, our elites have made a fetish out of never negotiating with people.
Everything is always non-negotiable.
The same people who endlessly want to invade Iran are horrified at the idea of trying to get what we want without a war.
The last thing America needs is another war.
Negotiating is very important.
And I will say, the Persian people are some of the greatest untapped potential on the entire planet.
The people of Persia are phenomenal.
The young Persians, they follow us on TikTok.
I get messages from kids in Iran.
They do not like this government.
I think, not maybe in our lifetime, maybe not.
I pray this totalitarianism in Iran can end because the Persian youth, I think they want to live in a free society.
Who knows?
Iran can't get a nuclear weapon, but simultaneously, as true, we cannot go to war with Iran.
Resist those calls because the drums of war are beating in Washington, D.C. Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
